RESOURCES FOR INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS The teaching and learning resources for instructors and students are available online. The instructor resources are password protected and available only to qualified instructors. The student resources are available to everyone. These resources have been carefully designed to enhance student learning, and they make it easier for instructors to prepare dynamic lectures and activities for the classroom.
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Question Bank The revised and expanded question bank includes a variety of question formats: multiple choice, fill-in-theblank, true-false, matching, essay, and challenging “thought” questions. There are approximately 60-70 questions per chapter.
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Medical Topics Guide This document highlights medically-relevant topics covered throughout the book, and will be particularly useful for instructors with a large number of premedical, health science, or nursing students.
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Media Guide This document overviews the multimedia available for students and instructors and contains the text of the voice-over narration for all of the movies.
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References Adapted from the detailed references of Molecular Biology of the Cell, and organized especially for Essential Cell Biology, the References provide a rich compendium of journal and review articles for reference and reading assignments.
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Blackboard® and LMS Integration The movies, book images, and student assessments that accompany the book can be integrated into Blackboard or other learning management systems. These resources are bundled into a “Common Cartridge” that facilitates bulk uploading of textbook resources into Blackboard and other learning management systems.
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There are also a number of media assessments that require students to respond to specific questions about movies on the website or figures in the book. Additional concept questions complement the questions available in the book. “Challenge” questions are included that provide a more experimental perspective or require a greater depth of conceptual understanding.
Cell Explorer This application teaches cell morphology through interactive micrographs that highlight important cellular structures.
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Flashcards Each chapter contains flashcards, built into the website, that allow students to review key terms from the text.
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Glossary The complete glossary from the book is available on the website and can be searched or browsed.
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References A set of references is available for each chapter for further reading and exploration.
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The website contains a variety of self-assessment tools to help students. • Each chapter has a multiple-choice quiz to test basic reading comprehension.
Animations and Videos The 130+ animations and videos, narrated by Julie Theriot (Stanford University School of Medicine), are available in WMV and QuickTime formats.
Student Self-Assessments
“This attractive, accessible, visually oriented text covers the fundamentals of cell biology required to understand biomedical and broader issues that affect students’ lives.”
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The section headings, concept headings, and figures from the text have been integrated into PowerPoint presentations.
“…the language and terminology used by the authors remain focused at a level appropriate to and accessible by undergraduate students….New users of the textbook will find it accessible and approachable….The instructor resources remain a valuable addition….I highly recommend it to all.”
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There are over 130 narrated movies, covering a wide range of cell biology topics, which review key concepts in the book and illuminate the cellular microcosm.
The images from the book are available in two convenient formats: PowerPoint® and JPEG.
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“Enthralls the reader….Core concepts are explained from first principles in a manner that is lucid and unambiguous....That the authors have assembled a seminal cell biology textbook cannot be disputed….really ought to be an intrinsic part of every bioscience undergraduate’s essential reading.”
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